... Bright supergiant star Gamma Cygni (Sadr) to the upper left of the image center lies in the foreground of the complex gas and dust clouds and crowded star field s. Left of Gamma Cygni, shaped like two luminous wings divided by a long dark dust lane is IC 1318, whose popular name is understandably the Butterfly Nebula . ... Some distance estimates for Gamma Cygni place it at around 750 light-years while estimates for IC 1318 and NGC 6888 range from 2,000 to 5,000 light-years. ... Light from Cygnus A ...

... 2015 August 19 . Central Cygnus Skyscape . Image Credit Copyright: Paul C. Swift . ... Bright supergiant star Gamma Cygni (Sadr) to the upper left of the image center lies in the foreground of the complex gas and dust clouds and crowded star field s. Left of Gamma Cygni , shaped like two luminous wings divided by a long dark dust lane is IC 1318, whose popular name is understandably the Butterfly Nebula . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... Extended Narrow-line Emission in the Bright Seyfert 1.5 Galaxy HE 2211-3903 Scharw chter, J. , Dopita, M.A., Zuther, J., Fischer, S., Komossa, S., Eckart, A. 2011, AJ, v. 142, Issue 2, August 2011, pp. ... The nearby QSO host I Zw 1: the stellar disk and adjacent objects Scharw chter, J. , Eckart, A., Pfalzner, S., Saviane, I., Zuther, J. 2007, A , v. 469, Issue 3, July III 2007, pp. ... Krips, M., Eckart, A., Neri, R., Zuther, J., Downes, D. Scharw chter, J. 2005, A , v. 439, Issue 1, pp. ...

... August 6, 1998 . Infrared Horsehead . ... Explanation: This famous cosmic dust cloud was imaged in infrared light by the European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) satellite. The false-color picture shows the bright infrared emission from dust and molecular gas in part of the Orion star forming region surrounding the Horsehead Nebula . In visible light, the horsehead-shaped dust cloud looks dark against a background of bright glowing gas. ... About APOD > . ...

... 722.1360B Spatially Extended Brackett Gamma Emission in the Environments of Young Stars By Beck, Tracy L., Bary, Jeffery S., McGregor, Peter J. 2010, ApJ, 722, 1360 (5) 32. ... 969M A Wide-Field Narrowband Optical Survey of the Braid Nebula Cygnus OB7 By Magakian, Tigran Yu.Nikogossian, Elena H.; Soo; Khanzadyan, Tigran; Movsessian, Tigran; Smith, Michael Davis, Chris J.; Beck, Tracy L.; Moriarty-Schieven, Gerald H.; Star Formation Region in Aspin, Colin; Pyo, TaeD.; ...

Photon Scattering: Basic Principle of Photon Scattering . Audio Narration is available . No Scattering: Photon Source and Detector . ... For optical photons, scattering goes as wavelength to the -4 power. In the case of blue photons compared to red photons, this means that blue photons are about 10 times more likely to get scattered than red photons. ... Watch the blue photons scatter away from the detector . ... Interstellar dust make stars appear redder than they really are . ...

... ApJ, 571, 843-855 (2002). ... In: URSI XXVIIth General Assembly, Maastricht, 17-24 August, 2002, p1326.pdf (2002). ... In: URSI XXVIIth General Assembly, Maastricht, 17-24 August, 2002, p2172.pdf (2002). ... In: URSI XXVIIth General Assembly, Maastricht, 17-24 August, 2002, p0115.pdf (2002). ... TINGAY, S.J., PRESTON, R.A., JAUNCEY, D.L. & MURPHY, D.L. "The subparsec-scale structure and evolution of Centaurus A", In: URSI XXVIIth General Assembly, Maastricht, 17-24 August, 2002, p2156.pdf (2002). ...

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... Solar System . ... Milky Way . Stars . ... Blue-white Vega is of course one of the brightest stars in our night sky lying about 25 light years from us in Lyra. ... Also in Lyra is the double star Beta Lyrae (Sheliak). This is in fact a close eclipsing pair of B-class stars about 960 light years from the Sun and was only the second eclipsing binary system to be discovered after Algol. ... Planet of Beta Lyrae (from The New Challenge of the Stars by Patrick Moore & David Hardy 1977) . ...

Our publications in 2007 year Pustilnik, S. A.; Tepliakova, A. L.; Kniazev, A. Y.; Burenkov, A. N.; SAO; Russia; SAAO; Africa, South . eprint arXiv:0712.4205, submitted to Astrophysical Bulletin (SAO) (12/2007) . Pustilnik, S. A.; Tepliakova, A. L.; Kniazev, A. Y. eprint arXiv:0712.4007, submitted to Astron.Lett (12/2007) . ... Kniazev, A. Y.; Pustilnik, S. A.; Zucker, D. B. eprint arXiv:0707.4285, submitted to MNRAS (07/2007) . ... eprint arXiv:0707.4288 (07/2007) . ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

... Circumstellar disc of beta Pictoris: constraints on grain properties from polarization. To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics . abs , src , ps ] . ... Dust influx to Titan from Hyperion . ... abs ] . ... Characteristics of bulges and disks in interacting galaxies . ... Dust grains around Herbig Ae/Be stars: porous, cometary-like grains? ... To appear in the Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement . ... Finally, Links may lead you to more options (e.g. via the LANL preprint system). ...

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... ISC Kosmotras . ... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... Launch of Dnepr LV carrying Sich-2 and BPA-2 (State Space Agency of Ukraine), Nigeriasat-2 and Nigeriasat-X (SSTL, Great Britain), RASAT (Space Research Technology Institute of Turkey (TUBITAK UZAY)), EDUSAT (La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), and Aprizesat-5 and Aprizesat-6 (SpaceQuest, USA) payloads is scheduled for 17 August 2011, at 10:12:20 decreed Moscow time (7:12:20 UTC). ...